Japanese Battleship Musashi, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Musashi, named after the ancient Japanese Musashi Province, was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, and flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet. She was the second ship of the Yamato class. She and her sister-ship, Yamato, were the largest and heaviest battleships ever constructed, displacing 72, 800 tonnes at full load, and armed with nine 46-cm (18.1-inch) main guns. Constructed from 1938-1941 and formally commissioned in the summer of 1942, Musashi served as the flagship of Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto and Mineichi Koga in 1943.